Nimrod's Hunting Tours,: Interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes, Sayings, and Doings of Sporting Men, Including Notices of the Principal Crack Riders of England, with Analytical Contents and General Index of Names. To which are Added Nimrod's Letters on Riding to Hounds.. |
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Page 521 - After laying down my pen. I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene: the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.
Page 313 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear Such gallant chiding ; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Page 370 - Thou shall also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth (lice. Therefore thou shall keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of vaHeys and hills; A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey...
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Page 521 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 370 - ... brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and...
Page 244 - As meeting streams, both to ourselves were lost; We were one mass; we could not give or take, But from the same; for he was I, I he.
Page 476 - I know there is one glory of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars : and one star differeth from another in glory.
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Page 558 - Sir Bellingham's house — having been blooded at Bosworth — all necessary measures were taken, and the doctor would fain have persuaded Mr. Stanhope that some ribs were broken. He had a short husky cough, and two or three other directing symptoms which seldom mislead a skilful apothecary; but he resisted all such insinuations, and assured him he should be well in a few days; and the Quorn hounds coming within reach on the following Thursday, he went to meet them, still having his arm in a sling...